SERVICE

Related Subjects: Courtesy, Favor, Servant, Servility, Usefulness

1. A service beyond all recompense
   Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.—CORNEILLE, Surena
   

2. I prefer death to lassitude. I never tire of serving others.—DA VINCI
   

3. Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.—ROBERT FROST, The Self-Seeker
   

4. The highest of distinctions is service to others.—KING GEORGE VI
   

5. He serves me most, who serves his country best.—HOMER, Iliad
   

6. Thousands at his bidding speed,
   And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
   They also serve who only stand and wait.—MILTON, On His Blindness
   

7. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
   

8. Nor are we to use living creatures like old shoes or dishes and throw them away when they are worn out or broken with service.—PLUTARCH, Lives
   

9. First come, first served.—Proverb
   

10. He who serves the public hath but a scurvy master.—Proverb
    

11. He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.—Proverb
    

12. He that looks for a requital, serves himself, not me.—Proverb
    

13. Service is no heritage.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
    

14. It did me yeoman's service.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

15. I have done the state some service, and they know 't;
    No more of that.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

16. 'Tis the curse of service,
    Preferment goes by letter and affection,
    And not by old gradation, where each second.
    Stood heir to the first.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

17. He profits most who serves best.—A. F. SHELDON, Motto For Rotary International
    

18. The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.—TOLSTOY, What Is to Be Done
    

19. Enough if something from our hands have power
    To live, and act, and serve the future hour.—WORDSWORTH, Sonnet to the River Duddon